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Having multiple interfaces on a server helps for a variety of reasons, and recently I had to get a server (a Sun Micrososystems X4100 incidentally), up and running with Ubuntu 12.04LTS and bonded interfaces.

I’ve written about the very excellent Cloudflare CDN before. It’s a fantastic content delivery network with inbuilt security, I love it. This is another quick howto to get your Nginx web server working properly with Cloudflare.

SSH Port Forwarding Examples

SSH is a very flexible and very useful tool for those of us working across multiple systems sometimes in multiple locations. Here are a few SSH commands I regularly use and include mostly SSH port forwarding. I use all these commands regularly on Linux and Mac OSX and they all work quite happily!

I know that basic FTP is not ideal and not secure. But it is widely supported and used, and sometimes if we’re moving around large files across a network it comes in incredibly useful.

This tutorial will go through setting up an FTP server on Ubuntu 12.04 Server which is allowing anonymous connections. I wouldn’t recommend you try this on an internet facing host, and would recommend when not in use you turn VSFTP off even on your internal network.

Although in my experience Linux is much less susceptible to malware, it would be unfair to say that they are completely secure. Even if a Linux machine isn’t infected it doesn’t mean it can’t be an unsuspecting virus delivery mechanism. Although saying that a web server really shouldn’t be delivering any malware…

AVG is a widely recognised anti-malware vendor, especially in the Windows world, and we’ll be installing their Linux Antivirus on our server and then setting it for a scheduled run daily. Continue reading →